Title:
GPS for IFR and VFR Pilots
Topic:
GPS for IFR and VFR Pilots.
Speaker(s):
Bruce Williams
Brief Description:
This presentation addresses common questions about using an IFR-approved GPS under IFR, including substituting GPS for ground-based navaids, using T-routes and G-MEAs, and flying RNAV (GPS) approaches, emphasizing techniques that will help you avoid last-minute scrambles in the cockpit. Finally, A Question and Answer session will follow the presentations.
Location of Seminar:
Whatcom Educational Credit Union
511 E Holly Street WECU
Bellingham, WA 98225
Directions to Venue:
The Whatcom Educational Credit Union is located downtown Bellingham next to FedEx/Kinkos.
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Seating:
84
seats at the facility,
75
remaining for online registration.
Registration Information:
Seminar has passed.
Sponsoring Division:
FAA Safety Team
Additional Event Information & Acknowledgement of Industry Sponsor(s):
The FAA Safety Team would like to thank the Washington Pilots Association for their continuous support of the FAA Safety Program and the Whatcom Educational Credit Union for supplying the venue for this event.
The doors open at 6 PM. A short WPA chapter meeting will be held at 7 PM. Bruce Williams presentation will begin shortly after the chapter meeting.
Speaker:
Bruce Williams is the owner of BruceAir, LLC, an aviation consulting, training, and pilot-services company based in Seattle, WA (www.BruceAir.com). He has been a pilot since the early 1970s, and he is a certified flight instructor and FAASTeam representative in the Seattle area. Today, he focuses on training for technically advanced aircraft (TAA) and stall/spin/upset courses in an Extra 300L aerobatic aircraft. During a 15-year career at Microsoft, he worked on six versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator. While at Microsoft, he was also a technical editor, multimedia producer and editor, and business development manager. In the 1980s, he edited the Western Flyer (now the General Aviation News), a biweekly newspaper dedicated to the world of general aviation. He is also the author of Microsoft Flight Simulator as a Training Aid: A Guide for Pilots, Instructors, and Virtual Aviators, published in 2007 by ASA, and Scenario-Based Training with X-Plane and Microsoft Flight Simulator, published in 2012 by Wiley & Sons, plus many features on a variety of topics for magazines and other periodicals.
Equal Access Information:
The FAA Safety Team (FAASTeam) is committed to providing equal access to this meeting/event for all participants. If you need alternative formats or services because of a disability, please communicate your request as soon as possible with the person in the “Contact Information” area of the meeting/event notice. Note that two weeks is usually required to arrange services.
Credit Applicability:
1 Credit for Basic Knowledge Topic 3
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